Curator: Marina Reyes Franco
NEXT is the section of Pinta Miami dedicated to emerging galleries that foster new forms of creation, experimentation, and artistic support. Conceived as a space for innovative curatorial proposals, it brings together projects that expand their ways of working and build new dialogues between artists, territories, and audiences.
Participating galleries
Al Sur Gallery - Buenos Aires, Argentina + Matia Borgonovo - San Salvador, El Salvador
NUBE GALLERY - Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia + Bauzá - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Galería Arteconsult - Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá + Estudio Arriba Abajo - San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Brenda Sabbagh Entre el descanso y el colapso, 2026. Óleo sobre tela, 100 × 100 cm. Al Sur Gallery.
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Gabriela Novoa, Buscamos desesperadamente la luz. 2026 - Galería Matía Borgonovo
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Paulin Gonzalez Villan, Rana y Curiyu - Bauza
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María Inés Saavedra Patrones del Agro II, 2026 NUBE GALLERY
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María Inés Saavedra Estructuras de Paisajes I, 2026 NUBE GALLERY
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Brenda Sabbagh La posibilidad de moldear lo efímero y fijarlo, 2025. Óleo sobre tela, 160 × 115 cm. Al Sur Gallery.
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Gabriela Novoa, Heredamos su fuerza y también las heridas, 2026 - Galería Matía Borgonovo.
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Gabriela Novoa. Flores de noche, 2020 - Matía Borgonovo.
Marina Reyes Franco is a curator and writer based in Puerto Rico. She previously served as curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (MAC) and, in 2010, co-founded La Ene in Buenos Aires, an institution she directed until 2014. She is currently the Curatorial Intensive Programs Manager at Independent Curators International and a member of the organizing team for La Gran Bienal Tropical.
Her curatorial practice focuses on underrepresented narratives and how tourism, colonial legacies, and economic conditions shape cultural production. Through exhibitions, collaborative projects, and commissions, she highlights critical perspectives on place, memory, and political imagination, with a special focus on the Caribbean and its diasporas.
At MAC, she curated projects such as Sunlight on the Sea Floor (with Paula Naughton), Puerto Rico Negrx (with María Elena Ortiz), El momento del yagrumo, and Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime (organized with Americas Society), as well as art commissions by Daniel Lind Ramos, Sofía Córdova, Tony Cruz Pabón, Julianny Ariza, La Vaughn Belle, Ulrik López Medel, and Eliazar Ortiz Roa.
A selection of exhibitions she has curated as an independent curator includes Resisting Paradise at Publica, San Juan, and Fonderie Darling, Montreal; Watch your step / Mind your head at ifa-Galerie Berlin; La Gran Bienal Tropical (2016 and 2025), Loíza; C32: Sucursal at MALBA, Buenos Aires; and numerous exhibitions at La Ene.